I wonder what is the earliest occurrence of a TV show or a movie where characters are kidnapped and put into an alien zoo, since I have seen it more than once in TV shows.
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Relevant, a classic UK ad with Flight of the Conchords: youtu.be/WuDXMEQVIGQ?t=1m5s– Daniel RosemanCommented Sep 18, 2017 at 16:07
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Can't say for certain there wasn't an earlier example, but I recall seeing at least one variant of this core plot in The Twilight Zone -- the original black & white episodes individually introduced by Rod Serling -- which ran in the very early 1960s. A quick Google gives the episode title as "People Are Alike All Over", Season 1, Episode 25, aired March 25, 1960.
Given the age of mass market television, this might well be the first example in that medium, but movies might beat it.
answered Sep 18, 2017 at 12:08
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This is the first thing that came to mind for me also. Commented Sep 18, 2017 at 19:53
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I can't find any earlier examples in TV, and I don't know of any earlier movies with alien zoos. Commented Dec 19, 2017 at 4:47
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My question here may be relevant: scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/177396/… even though it is not limited to alien zoos. Commented Dec 27, 2017 at 20:12
There was a show (in the late 50s or early 60s) where a man and a woman (total strangers) were abducted from (as I remember it) the platform of a train station and put in some kind of intergalactic zoo where the aliens were hoping to get them to reproduce. The humans were uncooperative. Eventually, the aliens gave up and returned them to the railroad station platform from which they had been abducted. After the aliens had left, the man looked at the woman and she looked back at him - and you knew that they were reconsidering their previous attitudes towards getting it together.
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